All volumes bound to match 1973 Folio 72. Factitious collection of about 549 maps taken from the atlases of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th cent., put together with the title "Atlas" and bound in 6 volumes. These volumes originally bore the imprint: Amstelaedamii apvd Reiniervm & Josvam Ottens. Over these words on the title-pages of v. 1-2, 4-6 is the name of Henrik de Leth who painted them. Volume 3 has only the erased imprint of Ottens., For fuller description see Phillips 3448 and C. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1800, Amsterdam c1967-71, v. 2, p. 63-83., and Maps by P. Schenck and son, G. Valck, F. de Wit, N. Visscher and others.
Publisher:
chez J. Covens & C. Mortier,
Subject (Geographic):
Denmark --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Reiner et Josua Ottens (Firm), Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719., and Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726.
Maps numbered in manuscript 1 to 97; wanting 2, 42, 45, 51, 52, 74, 85, 89, 92 and 93., Some maps dated 1704-1717, others without date., Some maps first published in J. van Keulen's De nieuwe groote lichtende zee-fackel and G. van Keulen's De groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee-atlas., Title devised by cataloger., and With engraved title-page: "Gedruckt tot Amsterdam bÿ Ioannes van Keulen, boeck zee-kaardt verkooper en graad-boogh maker aande oost zÿde vande Nieuwebrug inde gekroonde Lootsman. Met previlegie ... 1718"; engraved title-page has same illustration as J. van Keulen's De groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee-atlas ofte water-werelt ... 1681.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Keulen, Gerard van., Keulen, Johannes van, 1654-1715. Groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee-atlas ofte water-waereld., Keulen, Johannes van, 1654-1715. Nieuwe groote lichtende zee-fakkel., Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719., and Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726.
